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“I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Stills Would Be Process Term Creativity Reflection Divorce Engaged Something New

Author:Antony Hegarty

“My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much. I still have plenty of fight left in me.”

People Knows Looks Children Stills Dream Reality Would Be Beautiful Fighting Left Wonderful Childhood Reflection Overcoming Plenty My Children Surroundings Better Life Beautiful People

Author:Andrea Navedo

“My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.”

Children Dream Would Be Childhood Reflection My Children Better Life

Author:Andrea Navedo

“I thought that it would be interesting to have a mirror and grab a light and shine it around in different ways. It's an analog to the acoustic reflections that we're going to be trying to activate as well.”

Way Trying Wells Different Light Would Be Interesting Reflection Mirrors Shining Different Ways Acoustics Activate Analog

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”

“People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Made Different Body Bigs Light Might Would Be Able Moving Sky Information Objects Planets Computer Reflection Bigger Clouds Dust Aliens Flats Metals Spaceships Slugs

Author:Mark Haddon

“They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.”

World Humans Looks Would Be Beautiful Poor Secret Seeing Honest Identity Reflection Mirrors Dear Torture Isolation Subtle Comrade Narcissus

Author:Truman Capote

“Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at his reflection in it. The OCD guy thinks you don't keep it clean enough.The antisocial--" Puts his fist through it because it reminds him of his father." Annie said. She'd read all of mom's books, too. And the paranoid one would be jealous of the amount of time you spend cooking." Mom said Were you using that microwave again? Is something going on between the two of you? I caught you looking right at its clock." Annie said.”

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her onthat hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.”

Ifs Men Hard Hands Would Be Able Lying Stars Bed Kissing Ordinary Reflection Men And Women Mercy Congress Breathe Lakes Clothings Pale

Book:Heir to Sevenwaters

Source: Heir to Sevenwaters

“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”

Ifs Love Years Doe Would Be Beautiful Fall Reflection Falling In Love Conceit Fading Conceited Narcissus

Author:W. H. Auden

“Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Would Be Waiting This World Reflection Upset Assets Fur Kitten Franco

Author:James Franco

“How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”

People Believe Reality Would Be Able Easy Failing Tree Reflection Photograph Appearance Foolish Confused Melancholy Automobile

Author:Duane Michals

“At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.”

Would Be Individual Doubt Special Subjects Reflection Letters Editors One Time Insignificant Publish Introduction

Book:Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public

Source: Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public

“It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.”

Said Would Be Understanding Situation Leader Reflection Iraq Expected Stunning

Author:Chris Van Hollen

“Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.”

“I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?”

“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.”

Ifs Want Love Life Inspirational Giving Two Would Be Week Perspective Amount Standards Reflection Busy Vacation Two Weeks Procession Vacation Time Busy Day Aimless Life

Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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